{"id":41487,"date":"2025-08-04T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=41487"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:46:44","slug":"tommy-mclain-moved-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2025\/08\/tommy-mclain-moved-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy McLain moved to heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41488\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0485.jpeg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0485.jpeg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0485.jpeg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0485.jpeg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Tommy McLain, die op deze pagina&#8217;s in 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2022\/11\/tommy-mclain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vijf sterren<\/a> kreeg voor zijn album <em>I Ran Down Every Dream<\/em><strong>, <\/strong>is op 24 juli jl. overleden. McLain werd op 15 maart 1940 in Jonesville, Louisiana geboren. Vanaf de jaren 50 is hij muzikant en in 1966 scoorde hij een Amerikaanse hit met een cover van <em>Sweet Dreams<\/em>. Geld, roem, drugs en drank volgden. De laatsten bleven, totdat hij zich in de jaren tachtig bekeerde tot het katholicisme. Een muzikale topcarri\u00e8re was echter over. Totdat hij C.C. Adcock tegen het lijf liep. Met hem nam hij het schitterende \u2013 en goed ontvangen \u2013 <em>I Ran Down Every Dream<!--more--><\/em> op. Vorig jaar bracht het label Yep Roc nog een door McLain in 2002 opgenomen en toen in eigen beheer uitgebrachte plaat opnieuw uit: <em>Moving To Heaven<\/em>. Hij is 85 jaar geworden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy McLain, die op deze pagina&#8217;s in 2022 vijf sterren kreeg voor zijn album I Ran Down Every Dream, is op 24 juli jl. overleden. McLain werd op 15 maart 1940 in Jonesville, Louisiana geboren. Vanaf de jaren 50 is hij muzikant en in 1966 scoorde hij een Amerikaanse hit met een cover van Sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nieuws"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41487"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41496,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487\/revisions\/41496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}